Arnold Blinn Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, WA, US

San Diego, CA, US

Kirkland, WA, US

Techquity is a technology advisory firm offering corporate development services. We identify ways to leverage technology and technology teams to improve outcomes and achieve scale while reducing risk. We are technologists who have built and scaled businesses for leading tech companies and startups, and bring that experience and expertise to our clients and.

Ada, Oklahoma, US

PPLSI is the leading provider of legal services in United States and Canada, with more than 700 employees and 1.8 million members. LegalShield has a singular purpose -- to protect and empower people. Through its mobile app, LegalShield puts a law firm in the palm of your hand. For a low monthly fee, members join a community that receives legal services.

Internet, -, OO

Domain Connect is an open source standard that makes it easy for users of third party services (running at Service Providers) to configure and setup DNS (running at DNS Providers). The user can do this with no knoweldge of the nuances or details of DNS records or settings.The standard is used by 40+ companies. See https://domainconnect.org

Tempe, AZ, US

As Chief Architect of GoDaddy I was responsible for making sure the applications, platforms, and systems worked well together to meet the needs of our customers. This involved working with the application teams, the platform teams, our marketing and business development teams and more to make sure things are working smoothly and consistently.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was the architect for the experiences team on the Windows Phone. This team built most of the visible applications (mail, calendar, photos, music) and system user interface (shell, utlitities).My role was to help define and build the experiences, working with the rest of the division and company for coordination and platform support

Redmond, Washington, US

I was the development manager and architect of several different teams in Microsoft Studios. The first was Kinect Fun Labs, a program that focused on bringing new experiences on top of Kinect that showcase and highlight the device’s capabilities. Next was the Good Science studio. Good science built AAA Kinect based games including Kinect Adventures, Kinect.

Redmond, Washington, US

• The team’s goal was to expand the reach of Xbox LIVE beyond gaming and beyond the console. I was architect of the entire team (about 100 people) helping with the implementation and integration of the systems with the.
• Implemented the first “non-gaming” applications on the Xbox, including Facebook, Twitter, and Last.FM
• Drove the architecture for cross screen gaming onto Windows Phone 7, including authentication and access to LIVE services
• Drove implementation of Avatars off of the console onto Silverlight, Flash, Windows Phone 7, the PC, iOS, Android, and the server
• Designed and implemented next generation asynchronous multi-player gaming services
• Implemented and shipped several Windows Phone Applications

Redmond, Washington, US

• While in my role as MSN/Windows Live Architect I started a team to build new products and services which leveraged, tested, and validated (or extend) the underlying platform. As these products evolved they were either.
• Windows Live Custom Domains, an award winning service that allows domain owners to host their mail for free on the Windows Live Platform. It eventually became the main engine behind Windows Live @edu, and was copied by.
• MSLiveLabs, a platform to rapidly deploy and host applications and services. This service was used by hundreds of internal teams wishing to build and deploy hosted services for tests, betas, demos, and in some cases.
• Windows Live DNS, an internal service for running large scale DNS as a service.
• Distribution List Engine, an internal service used by Windows Live Groups and others for management of e-mail
• Windows Live Frame It, a consumer web site for serving images to electronic picture frames

Redmond, Washington, US

I was the Integration Architect for MSN (and what later became Windows Live). The services included Windows Live Id, ABCH (Address Book Clearing House), Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Billing, Groups, and dozens of other client and server groups. I reported directly to the division Vice President in this function.My primary role was the coordination of.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was the initial member of the MSN Shopping group, defining the product vision, business model, architecture, feature set, UI, etc. The team eventually grew to 80 people and was responsible for millions of dollars of revenue in MSN. As the team grew, I remained the development manager and architect.During this tenure I shipped five versions of this.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was an initial member of the Digital Rights Management team, defining the initial architecture and vision of the group. I implemented the first prototypes of this system.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was Architect and primary developer on Microsoft Commerce Server. In this role I designed and shipped three versions of this product. The first version shipped three months after the acquisition of eShop, and involved a complete definition of the product and porting of the code from Unix to NT. Each subsequent version was integrated deeper into the NT.

I was founder and primary product architect. The company was venture funded and ultimately grew to approximately 30 people.Initially the company started developing applications for the PenPoint operating system. Initial products were Note-taking and Image Processing applications.The focus of the company shifted several times as the market changed, shifting.

I worked on and implemented GUI based elements of Pen Based operating system. Much of the core innovation here was building an interface that could respond to pen (very similar to touch today), and could adapt to multiple screen sizes and orientations (automatic layout).

I worked on a 4GL forms product (SQL*Forms) adding graphically oriented features (windows, alerts, rich controls) and cross platform support.The underlying framework was built using Object Oriented programming techniques (at the time, this was a very new concept) and engineered to run across multiple platforms. These platforms included 3270 and VT100.